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Title |
Curb height measured at 13½ inches with ruler and hand, Los Angeles, 1953 |
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Description |
Photograph of a 13½-inch high curbstone. "Looking around with Harry Lang -- Detroit's jibes at L.A. curbstones draw sharp retort right back -- Today, 'Looking around' leaps fearlessly to defend LA's fair name against calumny, detraction and belittlement from (of ALL places!) Detroit. Let me tell you this, Detroit: What we have here in LA, we HAVE! -- and let no Detroiter say we haven't. -- I'm talking about curbstones. And I don't mean those runty, little, niddling, chickensized curbs like in Detroit. I mean fine, noble, upstanding, out-west-where-men-are-men-sized curbs. ¿ Curbstones that'll take on and crumple ANY car made in ANY Detroit factory! Curbstones that'll take second place to NO cliff in all Michigan! -- It's all because of this plea from Mrs. Bertha Worthington of 5022 Coolidge Avenue, Culver City, whose daughter Gladys is ill in the Herman Kiefer Hospital in Detroit, and facing a relapse because the other patients (all Detroiters, mind you!) are calling her a liar for asserting that LA has curbstones 'a foot high.' Pleads Mrs. W. 'Help my daughter! I know The Examiner can do anything, so can you help her against these Detroiters?' -- All right, Mrs. W; all right, Gladys. All right, you puny-minded Detroiters! A half block from the Examiner Building, at the LA Chamber of Commerce headquarters, our cameraman took this picture. That's an LA curb. That's a 12-inch ruler standing against it. Sidewalk level is 13½ inches above street level. So Gladys is a liar, is she? And that's at 12th and Broadway, virtually the heart of LA; elsewhere in LA, you'll find curbs even higher. Detroit will ALL its auto-factories can't make a car an LA curb somewhere can't crumple! And one final word: Out here, when you curb your dong, be sure he's a Great Dane¿! -- P.S. -- And now I just KNOW that some damtexan will tell me that in Texas, you have to ring for an elevator to get up onto the sidewalk!)" -- Examiner Clipping attached to verso, dated 2 March 1953.; Streetscape. Horizontal photography. |
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Subject |
Curbstones |
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Subject (File Heading) |
Los Angeles -- City -- Streets -- Signs & Repair |
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Geographic Subject (City or Populated Place) |
Los Angeles |
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Geographic Subject (County) |
Los Angeles |
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Geographic Subject (State) |
California |
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Geographic Subject (Country) |
USA |
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Geographic Coordinates |
-118.47776,34.32215; -118.16521,34.08009; -118.39825,33.74214; -118.50695,34.02659; -118.47776,34.32215 |
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Coverage date |
circa 1953-03-02 |
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Publisher (of the Digital Version) |
University of Southern California. Libraries |
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Date created |
circa 1953-03-02 |
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Type |
images |
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Format (aacr2) |
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w |
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Format (aat) |
photographic prints
photographs |
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Barcode |
3-1275-02805-9203 |
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Original Filename |
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-008 |
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Print Box |
Subjects 320 |
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Legacy Record ID |
examiner-m3020 |
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Part of subcollection |
Los Angeles Examiner Prints Collection, late 1920's - 1961 |
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Part of collection |
Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961 |
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Rights |
University of Southern California |
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Access Conditions |
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu; phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343 |
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Repository Name |
USC Libraries Special Collections |
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Repository Address |
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
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Repository Email |
specol@usc.edu; specol@usc.edu |
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Filename |
EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-008 |
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Archival file |
examiner_Volume124/EXM-P-S-LOS-ANG-CIT-STR-008.tiff |
